Cradle of QBs: The Home of Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Dan Marino and Jim Kelly | NFL Films Presents
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Western Pennsylvania is often called the Cradle of Quarterbacks, 6 of 23 modern era quarterbacks inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame have come from this region. Listen to Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Dan Marino and Jim Kelly talk about their careers and growing up in Western PA.
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Namath still just embodies that suaveness of his youth. His personality is timeless.
Holy shit, Kelly, Marino, Montana and Namath?! I'm raising my kids in Western PA.
+Lanz22 They must be steelers fans then. I guess to be the GOAT of Football you have to be a childhood steelers fan.
+Lanz22 Ive lived in the city of Pittsburgh my whole life, its a wonderful place to grow up.
Seriously... I guess always give PA QB prospects the benefit of the doubt lmao....
And George Blanda and Johnny U. ,,don't forget those legends who are HOFers too.
Tom Brady is the GOAT and Aaron Rodgers has GOAT talent. They're both 49ers fans growing up and grew up in the bay area sooo there
To have seen Montana, Kelly and Marino played it was an amazing era for the NFL.
Well said.
Many othere Ditka was from here too
Now we have Mahomes/Burrow/Allen
Facts!!! They were a joy to watch…
The story between Jim Kelly and Marino brought tears to my eyes.
Mine too. Because Kelly and the Bills would always beat Marino and break his heart.
“If he was a brotha the ball would’ve been right here🙌🏽” Montana funny asl😂😂😂
Pennsylvania is loaded everywhere with past, present and future NFL talent. Always has been, always will be.
Not as much as California.
Too bad Johnny Uhad passed, at this time. My dad said , with under 2 minutes, no one was better
I forgot how big Danny is...he looks every bit of 6'4" there...how I miss him and Shula.
Namath shrunk
When he played, he was 6’5
@@johngaus6582 Dan was listed as 6'4" 1/4
Agreed, Joe Namath is special; so likable. And, a great football player!!
Most overhyped QB in history ( Namath)! Not an all time great.
@@iamtman1 take your immature envy somewhere else. You obviously don't understand the game at all.
Envy?? lol! Not an ounce of envy. Namath is not anywhere near an all time great . Fact not envy. Nothing at all against him personally. NY hype creation and he took full advantage. I don’t blame him. Great personality yes though.
Joe was the best 👌🏼❤
Namath 47 more ints than td’s, 50% comp %, his stats sucked even for the era he played in. If he played anywhere but NY, he’d be Craig bortles. Doesn’t belong in the HOF but great personality nevertheless.
I'll never forget the time I met Jim Kelly and shook his hand
Mad respect for Kelly and all the guys in Canton
I saw Kelly play in high school. Didn't know he was born in Da'Burgh...but there's no hospital in East Brady.
love these guys. Marino is my favorite. Best quarterback ever. If pittsburgh would have picked him in the 80's. we would have been the team of the 90's
Stew Watkins It's funny how the Steelers fortunes coulda been much different in the 80s and 90s had they drafted Marino when they had the chance.
Eh, we'll never know. Perhaps in another universe that it turns out that way, he gets injured... We'll just never know. What ifs and hypotheticals can get you into trouble...
Well the problem was that Bradshaw said he could play so no scout was searching for a QB and even if the Steelers wanted to they did not have the good high Draft pick
To choose him in the draft
@@thefriendlygamer2221 Not quite, Gamer. In 1983 - Marino's first year in the league - Terry Bradshaw was already 35 years old and at the end of his career, so the Steelers SHOULD have definitely been looking for a qb! Bradshaw started one game that year, as Cliff Stoudt had become their main starter. No Pittsburgh scout even needed to be searching - Marino had just played at an incredible level at Pitt - right under their noses- for the previous four years!!! And they DID have the draft pick to take him; Pittsburgh drafted Gabe Rivera with the 21st pick, and Marino went to Miami with - incredibly - pick number 27. The Los Angeles Express of the USFL were way smarter than at least 26 teams in the NFL - because they selected Marino with the number one pick of round one, ahead of all those other qb's who don't come close to Marino. If Marino had gone to the Steelers - instead of a Miami team at the end of it's talent cycle - and a head coach in Shula who then compiled the worst 14 year drafting record in NFL history after he stupidly got rid of Player personnel man Bobby Beathard - Dan Marino would have had to have grown a third hand to accommodate the Super Bowl rings he would have gotten playing with that great organization.
Sorry, I hate that type of thinking, there is no way anyone could know how anything could have happened if the Steelers had drafted Marino, that's like thinking Len Bias might be alive if the Celtics hadn't drafted him, can't play that guessing game and it's a waste of time, too
These guys possess an incredible character, defined by one word: CLASS
Joe and Marino explaining that play was beautiful
Montana said he’d love to see the GOAT play in today’s game! MARINO!!
Today nfl qb’s are not allowed to be hit as they sell tickets
Marino GOAT? Marino threw 2 INT in the SB vs Montana. Montana 4-0 in the Super Bowls. 11 TD zero INT. Marino 1 SB with 1 TD - 2 INT. Goat> LMAO
@@nascarman38n88 I’m speaking strictly as a thrower of the ball. He was unmatched. Marino never had that type of all around talent on both sides of the ball like Joe. Not to mention coaching.
@@cgbodyauto7635 you should know by now that you can’t say the word goat and not expect to get flamed in the replies. Football ,hockey, basketball, table tennis or even the best biscuits and gravy will spark the nuh uhh - uhuhh
@@nascarman38n88 go ahead and look at the teams around them.
To see the love and respect between all four you gotta love it. Some of the greatest Qb's of all time! MY man Joe Cool, Joe Montana, Jim Kelly, and Dan Marino. What a magnificent group of talent
Jim Kelly is one of the classiest guys I've ever seen.
Salt of the Earth! ...and how cool is Joe Namath! Wow!
Four great men...and great QB's.
That stage would be filled if they had all the different position there not just the QBs. From Mike Ditka to Tony Dorsett to Curtis Martin to Darrelle Revis and many others that came from Western Pa.
Yes, as much as I like Ditka as a player and tough guy, I have heard enough of his mouth. It would have been nice to see Dorsett, but since it was only QBs, I'm sure that was why he wasn't invited. Besides, he is having some issues with concussions.
boom boom mancini the boxer was from youngstown ohio which is yinzer territory too
Aaron Donald deserves a shoutout
Kelly Strong 💪! I'm from Miami but man is that dude a winner
He's a Hurricane, and always will be. He's part of Miami sports!
There must something in the water inWPA, to produce such quality players and men.But for me Montana is the best QB,but Marino had a Magical arm.If it's not the water,maybe the Italian and Irish upbringing.
@@brucekilby9957 Every year become more of a Montana fan. Marino will always be the best to me. But Joe Cool was a wizard on the gridiron
Hi James I always though Dan was more like a Man mountain, with that great distance and accuracy.At6f4 a great athlete. One of the best.
I remember watching these guys. Marino could throw a ball into tomorrow, Montana was a short-to-medium master of control. Don't know much about Kelly. But Joe Willie had an incredibly accurate rifle arm - and he often had to scramble 30 yards behind scrimmage to throw - absolutely stunning to watch!
Never saw Otto Graham, but George Blanda was awesome for the Raiders as backup for Daryl Lamonica - he was also place kicker. Back when Ray Guy was punting footballs into next week.
Daryl Lamonica completed so many long throws - he was nicknamed The Mad Bomber lol
Jim Kelly invented AND perfected the no huddle offense and is the greatest QB in NFL history to never win a Super Bowl holding a record that has stood for 30 years as the only QB to win 4 straight Conference Championships and appear in 4 straight Super Bowls
@@xp8969 He was gutsy and smart, and had the team that pulled it off. I always thought he should have at least one ring.
@@xp8969 that's false. Marino is the greatest QB to never win a super bowl and it's not debatable. Marino is arguably the greatest QB period.
Luv Joe Namath!!
Nice to see Montana compliment Marino like that, when he referenced the game today and how Marino would shine.
Even the greatest of all time joe montana still praises the great dan marino
When I was a kid I used to look at Dan Marino and Joe Montana like they were super hero's that would never be surpassed on field. Damn they were good
See that Marino visits Kelly at the Hospital that was good to show its not like hi Bye relationship and the mam has a soul
The RESPECT among these guys! Love them all. Thanks for the great football, gentlemen.
Joe Namath was probably the least efficient of the quarterbacks here, but in some ways he had to be with some of his teams and with others he just wanted to be; but, I have to say stats don't tell the whole story of football and also what a personable man he is. How can you not like him?
Paul Michel he did throw for 4,000 yards in a 14 game season, that's got to mean something.
How is this 8 yrs old & iv never seen it?! I could binge watch these guys tell stories!
8:40 - Best story of them all. DC-10! DC-10!
Seeing them on one stage, priceless! Loveeeeee me some namath, roll tide 🐘
Friendship and Bond those guys have to each other , Montana and Kelly chatting on way to discussion , is heartwarming, my top 2,fav QBs
Broadway Joe is the man
Sometimes
Always!
Especially when he threw 47 more ints than TDs in his career! Massively overrated. NY hype machine.
So much greatness in this video
It is like a Mount Rushmore of QB's
It's amazing how they all pretty much played each other on a massive scale game.
"All you ever ask for is an opportunity you have right here where else would you rather be than right here! right now!"
LanceAlot Ent. He'll yeah dude
Black lung and the smoke from the steel mills made you tough period. Some like these four HOF'ers just used it as fuel to be the best.
Blue collar towns and blue collar people produce great people with great character. It is that work ethic.
In West pennslyvania born and raised
Fantastic video. Brought a smile to my face, and I'm a Long Island Broncos fan with no connection to any of those great men's teams. But I admire passion and greatness. Loved it.
In 1972, NY Jets played the Bills at Buffalo. My high school band from Ohio played the halftime show. I was a 17 year old drummer. Just before halftime, the band was standing behind the fence behind the end zone. Jets were in the red zone. I was very close to the action. Jets running back Emerson Boozer broke to the end zone, & right in between 2 defenders who were converging on him. Namath fired a laser rocket perfectly between the defenders at the perfect time into Boozers hands for a TD.
"WOW!" That's all I could say. That pass was super human. From that day forward, I am in awe of Joe Namath.
To the minority of detractors; the point of the video, with it's assemblage of greatness, is that, the region has given the game the most talented players at the position than anywhere else...period. Along with the closure of the mills and mines of their hometowns went one of the key elements in producing Men like them. I'm sorry to say this; men and women who push and click buttons on a monitor for a vocation, won't produce anybody better.
This is just something special… maybe I’ll go to western Pennsylvania and have a kid there!
Fantastic quarterbacks!
Joe Nameth & Joe Montana two greatest QB's with the first name Joe in it. Broadway Joe and Golden Joe!!!
Pittsburgh!
I owe my swagger to these Pittsburgh men, especially Joe Willy Namath!
The City of Champions raise me! Now I take that blue-collar philosophy and apply it to my professional life.
All I want to be is a man that works hard and love the city I’m from. That’s Pittsburgh.
Western PA, specifically Pittsburgh, is truly the home of CHAMPIONS. The CITY OF CHAMPIONS.
I know the rest of the world hates the way we own everything, but that’s too bad!
Don't forget Tom Clements from McKees Rock, PA. A great Notre Dame QB in the early 1970s and standout in the CFL.
And Terry Hanratty from Butler Pa. National Champ at Notre Dame, All America and then Steelers 2 Super Bowls.
@@tacey01 And don't forget ol' #33, Al "Touchdown" Bundy of Polk High!
@@Mr.56Goldtop thats ohio lol
I think he even won a couple of Grey Cups in the CFL.
@@hugh2hoob668 Close enough!
Ive been waiting for this on 30 for 30
That was great! Jim cracks me up...not only as a BIlls fan. What wonderful inspirations! All of 'em
Some of the best right here.
Wait a second, you're trying to tell me that Dan Marino would have thrown it??? I'M IN SHOCK lol
Montana with great insight into what went wrong once the ball was snapped.
ntgr87 I thought the same
I love Namath
The greater Philly metro area has also produced Rich Gannon, Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco.
Fly Eagles Fly 🦅
Concrete Charlie in the Lehigh Valley
Funny how they all show Marino respect and admit he had no help lol.
Well look at the bad defenses he had behind him and never had a stud of running back. Imagine if he would have that. But at least for a little while he the Marks Brothers and the Great Center in Dwight Stephenson.
what a collection of quarterbacks
This needs to be a show
Joe Namath did something only two other quarterback have done in history of football he won a national championships in college and a super bowl in NFL the other two were Montana and stabler
Ken Stabler was a backup to Joe Namath and some other guy for 2 college championships, but he did not win one when he was the starter. Tom Brady was a backup at Michigan when they won a college championship and then won 5 Super Bowls as a starter. Bernie Kosar won a college championship as a starter and a Super Bowl as a backup in Dallas. Troy Aikman started the 1985 season with Oklahoma but suffered a season ending injury early on. The team won the national championship without him. He won 3 Super Bowls.
Terry Hanratty from Western PA did it. Notre Dame All America National Champ and won 2 SB as a Steeler.
Also Tom Brady was on the 97 Michigan team so he's won one too
Brady won the 2000 Orange Bowl and Super Bowl XXXVI 2 years later.
Nice fact..
That "if he was a brotha" quote killed me LMAOOOO
I'm the biggest Marino fan ever. But, Montana has the 4 rings and he played huge in all four wins. So what he had great teammates around him, these other guys did too. Namath didn't even throw a TD in his SB III win? Montana is best ever....fuck individual stats
Lol Montana isn't in the same universe as Marino, he's better than Brady but doesn't hold a candle to Marino. Switch their teams and Marino wins 8 Super Bowls, the most in history
greg trust I agree, but I don't know about the superbowl wins. that's because of that talent that was Marino. those niners might thrown it too much with Marino. and maybe their defenses wouldn't have been as good with Marino under center and contract. but would he won 1 yea more tgan one I don't know.
And surprisingly like Don Maynard never caught a pass and Namath did not throw a pass in the 4th quarter.
Don Maynard was injured and used as a decoy throughout the game. He constantly drew double coverage which opened up opportunities for everyone else.
Namath felt a run heavy offense would work better against the Colts
cherish him while hes still around... 50 years from now, the name namath will have the same lore wrapped around it as ruth, ali & robinson.
As a great QB was said. I guarantee it.
Yeah I liked that too....Montana to Rice one more time....well put ..Even though it would have been cool to see him throw it too Dwight One more time.....Montana GOAT. !!
Proud to be from Pittsburgh!
Great sports town. Steelers, Pirates and Penguins. Something about those Black and Gold colours.
2018 and the New York J-E-T-S Jets are still waiting for the sequel to the Joe Namath show. Sigh.........we miss you, Broadway Joe 😢😢😢
ნიკოლოზ ოთარაშვილი we got darnold baby!
2020 and it only gets worse lol
That was supposed to be Richard Todd, then Ken O'Brien, then Vinny Testaverde, then Chad Pennington, then Mark Sanchez, then Geno Smith, then Sam Darnold. Who's up next. Well at least O'Brien was pretty good. Put up some decent numbers.
Kramer just screeching over the whole thing.
Montana to Rice one last time !!! :=)
Marino to Duper just for shits and giggles
Too bad Johnny U passed from a heart attack, so young; Johnny was the best under pressure
Would have been great to see Johnny U there. The stories he could tell.
Would love to have a dinner with just one those guys, so much I would love to ask each of them!
No asterisks or Tuck Rule with these guys. These QB's got hit and hit hard. Rules today make it a different game for QB's.
Ah I see You're one of those Fans still crying about Fake Asterisks And the Tuck Rule Hence "Rule" That was Made a rule in the league 2 Years prior to that Oakland Game... Brady has taken Plenty of These so called "Hard Hits" throughout his Career and has gotten right back up from most (Apart from the ACL Injury in 2008), He'll still go down as arguably one of If Not the Greatest Qb of all Time
The 757 area of Virginia has produced some nfl greats. Lawrence Taylor, Bruce Smith, Michael Vick, also Allen iverson who probably could’ve made it to the nfl
Percy Harvin came out of VA Beach as well
Number 12 is the greatest QB number
Namath
Kelly
Brady
Rodgers
Starbach
Bradshaw
Stabler
Also Cunningham and Griese
Thank you to mention the late great Ken Stabler
I like to know what is in the water there. How can place produce so many awesome quarterbacks.
I like be like 10 minutes from Beaver Falls real talk. Plus, my friend is Joe Namath's NEPHEW
Blackhawk High huh? Me too. Class of '84
Pretty bad ass they ALL from the same town/area.........craziness!
Mike Ditka and Tony Dorsett are from WPA.
@Paulgra
And Lena Horne and Art Blakey, Billy Strayhorn.
Love this!
WOW....LEGENDS GREAT GUY'S...LOVE ME SOME EAGLES"SUPER BOWL CHAMPS"...THANK-YOU.
This is how you can tell the difference in mentality between guys that are winners and guys that love there numbers. The guy who went to four consecutive superbowls and the guy who won four superbowls both said on the one yard line they are handing the ball off to beast mode the guy who went to one superbowl and never got back says I am throwing it three times
4 legends
Wow. On the left you have a combined Super Bowl victories of 5-0. And on the left side you have a combined Super Bowl lost of 0-5
Beautiful video..thank you for posting..didn’t know JK was suffering from cancer😢
Joe Namath remains a cool and charismatic guy
These guys are all from working class, blue-collar backgrounds. Hard to be from western PA and not be. Football was the game there, but baseball was also big back then. The guys here are just representative of the many men from that part of the state who went on to careers in football (or other sports), and it was a special time in history for them all. Football was the great unifier in the area. Maybe in the future it won't be the major sport. And, times have changed. The area has been nailed big time economically, good union type jobs are hard to find. Many people have just packed up and left, bound for places they can make a living and support their families. Yet, these guys represent a time when being from their part of the state meant having a regional legacy in football. They have a right to be proud of that. Living in that part of PA isn't easy, it's a rough place. Football was just an extension of that.
Awesome interview
Can't wait for Favre, Brady, Manning and Brees in 20 years
I think Brady and Manning will have the relationship Kelly and Marino have for each other. Lots of respect there.
i feel like the the spectacle of being a top celebrity and athlete must have been much greater than it is now. the exposure we get these days kind of over does it.
This is so lovely ❤️😊🏈
& John Unitas!
@IS
And Blanda=Amazing!
@PCP (that explains everything)
LOOK at his rings.
+PC Police! Looking back and continuing through today, Joe Namath won the most important SuperBowl of all time, literally. It put the AFL on to the map, once and for all time. The AFL-NFL merger occurred following that game, and all football fans have been enjoying that day ever since. Forget the Stats, having that kind of impact is Priceless!
Jim Kelly, 4 SBs in four years- that's monumental in itself.
In my early career as a truck driver, I made a wrong turn in Pittsburgh my first time going through. I used what ideas I could come up with to get back to the freeway. I made one turn after the other, saw a place to turn around and ended up trapped in a warehouse area of what turned out to be a Steel Mill. I had to get out of my truck and walked into the mill to find someone to help me get out of that deadlock. I met a true Pittsburgh Steeler! He greeted me in great fashion and told me what to do. I'm only to proud in my life to come from Oakland, CA, hard working Port City back in the day, and with no explanation as to how it turned out in my first trip through Pittsburgh to actually meet a genuine Pittsburgh Steeler. The backbone of America's development and prosperity. I was the greatest honor and sort of a God given event. He shook my hand and I shook his. A great day to be sure.
+PC Police! And P.S. I watched that Superbowl, and the season leading up to it, that the Jets won that game. I was only 8 yrs old.
The only Super Bowl I was unable to watch was SuperBowl VI, so I've watched all of them, save one.
So, Talk, when you know what your talking about...
Hey, "Smartest Man in the World": Stats are for losers. I wouldn't take ANYONE over Joe in a game I needed to win. He was fantastic when the Jets had a decent team. Most of his years there the Jets stunk and he was forced to take unreasonable chances with his throws. You can't compare his stats to Brady and other of today's arena QBs. Dan Marino had a lot of stats but he didn't win a Super Bowl against all odds like Joe did. Conclusions: Joe is great and you are an horrendous commenter.
The 2 coolest quarterbacks of all time, Joe Namath and Johnny Unitas
Sammy Baugh and Joe Montana!
Can you imagine these guys playing by today's NFL rules!
We be saying Brady who!!!😁😁😁😁
Marino could be having 6,000 to 7,000 yards passing seasons.
Excellent video!
Why don't any Bills players get their own documentaries like Sports century, A football life, or others? Look at all the Hall of Famers on those classic Bills teams and they don't get their own individual programs. They have done docs highlighting far less important and talented players yet the Bills guys get overlooked. Jim Kelly, Andre Reed, Bruce Smith, Kenny Lofton, Thurman Thomas, and Marv Levy all in the Hall and no programs about them specifically. Even Darrell Talley deserves a doc. 30 for 30 finally did one on the team but none on the players themselves. Show my boys some fucking love already.
I agree been wondering the same thing
Did you watch the four falls of buffalo?
Shreddie Krueger Jim Kelly just finished up his interviews for a football life and it might air next season
Holy crap really. Do we know who else will be on for next season?
Korra don't know the only reason I know that Jim Kelly was doing interviews was John Murphy let it slip on his show a couple of weeks ago
i have never played a game where i we got whipped like playoff to penn team. yes i was playing w torn achilles, not feel my right arm frozen and trying look for girls anernic bodybuilder. still penn men are bad asses earned my respect
How many Warners never got the call or Brady's left to go undrafted???
Not to mention Johnny Unitas!
Today’s QB Cradle is San Francisco
San Francisco? Okay, which ones are from the Bay area?
Jared goffs family lives right down the street from I. Dude is a stud.
@@kennethlucas7473I know this post is from 6 years ago lol but Jared Goff, Josh Allen, Aaron Rodgers, and Tom Brady all grew up 49er fans and all lived in the Bay Area
20:31 to be honest, western pennsylvania is almost like the deep south. Especially with the appalachian families that live in the hills of that region are sometimes used interchangeably to portray families from alabama or louisana, except it snows in the winter in western pa.
I think, that's "to be dishonest"
As being a kid and a huge Bills fan, i hated Dan Marino, and naturaly i thought Jim did also haha. Had no clue they were friends the whole time. Needless to say now as an adult Dan is a super good dude and im glad he was there for Jim as we all were during his fight for his life.
They forgot Johnny Unitas...One of the greatest ever!
they didnt forget
Sandi Larson "4 of 6 of the football legends are still alive today."
Sandi Larson in the begging of the video. unitas
Sandi Larson they should've called him, I think he's still living in Florida right?
+Peter Brandt
Johnny Unitas died in 2002
John Unitas of the Baltimore Colts is still the greatest.
It would have been cool to see him there.
Work ethic. Plain and simple. Those steel mills and mines where the cradle of work ethic. You wanted OUT work ethic on the field was what got you out.
Moon township Pennsylvania..4 Miles from New Brighton
MARINO the BEST